"Can do" is easily carried about.

Look to others, but trust to yourself.

SELF-RELIANCE.

NSIST on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the man who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. If anybody will tell me whom the great man imitates in the original crisis when he performs a great act, I I will tell him who else than himself can teach him. Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned thee, and thou canst not hope too much, or dare too much. There is at this moment for me an utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses and Dante, but different from all these. Not possible will the soul, all rich, all eloquent with thousandcloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if I can

No help like self-help.

Eagles fly alone, but sheep herd together.

Every man for himself, and God for us all!

Better do it than wish it done.

hear what these patriarchs say, surely I can reply in
the same pitch of voice; for the ear and the tongue
are two organs of one nature. Dwell up there in the
simple and noble regions of thy life, obey the heart,
and thou shalt reproduce the fore-world again.

EMERSON.

THE VALUE OF TRAVEL.

T draws the grossness of the understanding,
And renders active and industrious spirits.

He that knows most men's manners must of
necessity

Best know his own, and mend those by ex-
ample.

'Tis a dull thing to travel like a mill-horse,

Still in the place he was born in, lamed, and blinded ;
Living at home is like it. Pure and strong spirits,
That, like the fire, still covet to fly upward,

And to give fire as well as take it, cased up and
mew'd here-

I mean at home, like lusty-mettled horses,

Only tied up in stables to please their masters,
Beat out their fiery lives in their own litters.

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

The world is a good school.

Every man for his ain hand, as Henry Wynd fought.

Blessed is the man that walketh not

In the counsel of the ungodly,

EVIL ASSOCIATIONS.

F all the dangers to which the young can be exposed, there is not one which experience pronounces more imminent than the company and example of the ungodly. "Sinners" are fond to have associates in their evil courses.

Some of these courses are such as cannot be .

pursued without associates. And in how many
instances besides is solitary vice-vice, of which the
perpetrator has no companion but his own conscience,
felt to be irksome and miserable! How often is it
for the purpose of preventing the intrusions, and
silencing the annoying whispers or louder remon-
strances of this troublesome visitor, that company
courted! "Hand joins in hand." They keep one
another in countenance; they rally each other's
spirits ;

they drown dull care; they unite in
"making a mock at sin." They help each other to
"break God's bands asunder, and cast away his
cords from them;" and, for the time at least, to give
their foreboding fears to the winds. And while the
fearers of God, in the exercise of a pure benevolence,
rejoice with the angels of heaven over a repenting
sinner-over one who turns from the "fatal paths of
folly, sin, and death," into the paths of wisdom,
purity, and peace—these children of the Wicked One

Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Nor standeth in the way of sinners,

Evil communications corrupt good manners.

He that hath mercy on the poor,

participate in his infernal pleasure, when they succeed
in seducing any from the right way, and thus obtain-
ing an accession to their numbers, and an encourage-
ment to their selfish indulgences, from the ranks of
religion and virtue.
DR. WARDLAW.

THE EVIL OF POVERTY.

O not accustom yourself to consider debt
only as an inconveniencé; you will find it
a calamity. Poverty takes away so many
means of doing good, and produces so much
inability to resist evil, both natural and moral,
that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.
Let it be your first care, then, not to be in any man's
debt. Resolve not to be poor; whatever you have,
spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human hap-
piness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes
some virtues impracticable, and others extremely
difficult. Frugality is not only the basis of quiet, but
of beneficence. No man can help others that wants
help himself; we must have enough before we have
to spare.
DR. JOHNSON.

Happy is he.

Poverty is an enemy to happiness.

A safe conscience makes a sound sleep.

Honour and wealth from no condition rise;

DISHONOUR.

MAN of business should be an honourable man. Although a man cannot be honourable without being honest, yet he may be strictly honest without being honourable. Honesty refers chiefly to pecuniary matters; honour

applies to the principles and feelings. You may pay your debts punctually, you may defraud no man, and yet you may act dishonourably. You act dishonourably when you give your correspondents a worse opinion of your rivals in trade than you know they deserve. You act dishonourably when you sell your commodities at less than their real value, in order to attract your neighbour's customers. You act dishonourably when you purchase goods at higher than the market value, in order that you may raise the market upon another buyer. You act dishonourably when you negotiate accommodation bills with your bankers, as if they arose out of real transactions. You act dishonourably in every case wherein your outward conduct is at variance with your real opinions. You act dishonourably if, when carrying on a prosperous trade, you do not allow your servants and assistants, through whose exertions you obtain your success, to participate in your prosperity. You act

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

The wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.